Ballyhale better team I thought and seemed to move up a gear when they needed. Ballygunner played well in patches but basic stuff like not winning puck out, stupid tactics and not scoring from play much cost them. Prob a bit harah but cub hurling in Waterford is in trouble if BG are the best. They will win the next 3 championships in Waterford I feel

Great showing from the Antrim team in the other semi final and they will be kicking themselves tonight the chances they missed. St Thomas looked average

Ballyhale to win easy in the final I think and King Henry as a manager will overload in the media

Cushendall put up some performance. Completely written off by the bookies but pushed St Thomas's to the very end.

yeah was the better of the 2 games over the weekend. BH should do the business on paddy's day.

i said at xmas that the losing county of the BG and BH match would have a huge say in the National hurling league and with BG been beaten i backed Waterford immediately after the game at 8/1.

Put it like this, historically the 2 county all ireland club finalists don't tend to win the national league. Kilkenny were the last team to do both in 2005. with the national league semi final 1 week after paddies weekend then i think that eliminates Galway and Kilkenny chances.

That leaves Waterford and Dublin from 1B and simply Dublin are not upto it. In 1A Limerick and Tipp are the big players and Clare are just f**king Clare, hot and cold from day to day and i'd hope to draw them in either the Q/F or S/F. To me the pick of Waterford, Tipp and Limerick will be in the National League Final and at 8/1 Waterford were the best value. having the O'Keeffe, and the 2 Mahoney's coming back into the team over the next few weeks will be a much bonus to Waterford.

Cushendall put up some performance. Completely written off by the bookies but pushed St Thomas's to the very end.

Could have won alright! Thought that player at the end might have taken his point and took it to Extra Time. Cushendall probably gave away too many Free's especially in the first half so their indiscipline cost them! The referee did all he could for them aswell playing an extra 2 minutes onto the 5 and i know people will say there was stoppages and that but for example in the Kerry V Dublin game there was also 5 mins of injury time and some stoppages yet the referee blew up bang on the 75. Time keeping should really be out of the referee's hands as there's too much inconsistency with referee's

Serious stuff starts now for Waterford with all the so called 'easy' games out of the way. We travel too Dublin next Sunday which will be a tough game and then it's Galway at home on 3rd Mar before the start of the knockout stages.

Limerick very impressive in 1A beating Kilkenny and Wexford had a great win over Tipp with Cork getting a win over Clare. Anyone can make the top 4 and the next 2 weeks will be interesting

The League for 2020 will be as follows.

Group A

1st placed team in 1A 2019

4th placed team in 1A 2019

Winner of 1A 5th/6th playoff 2019

2nd placed team in 1B 2019

3rd placed team in 1B 2019

div 2A winner

Group B

2nd placed team in 1A 2019

3rd placed team in 1A 2019

Loser of the 1A 5th/6th playoff 2019.

1st placed team in 1B 2019

4th placed team in 1B 2019

Winner of the 1B relegation playoff 2019 (5th vs 6th)

Groups to run on a two year cycle (2020, 2021)

– To be redrawn for 2022 and every two years thereafter based on formula above (“5th placed team Div 1B” to change to “Relegation final winners” for this purpose).

– Relegation from 2020 onwards to be after Relegation Play-Off between bottom placed team in Group A and Group B.

– Winner of Div 2A final is promoted annually to replace relegated team

1st placed team in each group to advance directly to Allianz Hurling League Semi Final. 2nd and 3rd placed teams from each group to meet in “crossover” quarter finals (2nd 1A v 3rd 1B and 3rd 1A v 2nd 1B).

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